Advanced Electro-Optical Systems
We focus on rapidly developing and then field-testing innovative sensor systems used by the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, NASA, and other U.S. government agencies to gather data for the persistent surveillance of wide areas in space and on the earth. To design and build prototypes of these systems, our staff leverage a broad range of technologies: electro-optics, infrared sensors, novel focal plane arrays, embedded processors, video analytics, and image processing. We work closely with the end users of systems to ensure that new systems provide high-quality, relevant information, and we are able to respond quickly to improve our systems to meet users' needs.
Featured Projects
weather
TROPICS
A constellation of small satellites is collecting rapidly refreshed weather data to advance studies of hurricane structure and intensity and improve forecasts.
surveillance
Multi-Aperture Sparse Imager Video System
An airborne system provides high-resolution wide-area video imagery and onboard data processing to enable real-time monitoring of suspicious human activity.
space situational awareness
ORS-5 SensorSat
A small satellite is providing imagery of a big swath of near-space.
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Featured Publications
Data trust methodology: a blockchain-based approach to instrumenting complex systems
Aug 5
MIT Lincoln Laboratory Report TR-1256
Pixel-processing imager development for directed energy applications
Aug 26
Directed Energy Systems Symposium, 26-29 August 2013.
Time delay integration and in-pixel spatiotemporal filtering using a nanoscale digital CMOS focal plane readout
Nov 1
IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, Vol. 56, No. 11, November 2009, pp. 2516-2533.